Harry Mathews Quotes
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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The show has become my therapy.
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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Even working from nature you have to compose.
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He had seen Hyle shoot, and he had seen only one man he thought was as good ... just one. He'd seen Con Vallian down in the Bald Knob country that time, and Con was quick. He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.
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The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.
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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
